Why Church History Matters to the Secular Setting

One of the most fascinating aspects of the professional history field, to me, is the wall of separation that is often created between religious and secular history.  Especially when you talk about intellectual history and the history of ideas, you can’t just write off religious belief or theological principles outright, yet many historians (even intellectual historians) […]

Civil War Reenactors and Race: A Review of Confederates in the Attic

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(This is a long-overdue book review for me.  I trust that, even if you’ve read and forgotten Confederates in the Attic, you’ll bear with me as I dredge up old bones!)
Tony Horowitz, in the 1999 book, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, chronicles time spent amount modern-day history enthusiasts with […]

What I’m Reading This Week

I know I’ve not covered an actual historical topic in a week or so, with the exception of the Diaries entry the other day, preferring to stick more to Historiographical topics as well as my lecture series.  Tomorrow I will return to an actual historical discussion, but today I want to send you out from […]

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